.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 253 117
Rank change year-on-year -55 -136 +19
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 362 553 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.17% 2.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 5.37% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 333 378 1,477
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £89,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,415 10,299 14,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.56% 21.81% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,898 6,038 12,104
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +17 106 £78,750 +12.50% 63
North of England -31 104 £55,000 - 47
North West +8 66 £55,000 -3.30% 34
South East -32 50 £58,750 +8.80% 63
Midlands -22 47 £65,000 +23.81% 29
East Midlands -7 38 £65,000 +30.00% 17
South West +12 36 £55,000 -20.00% 16
Yorkshire -51 23 £40,000 -20.00% 9
North East -11 15 £55,000 +22.22% 4
East of England -8 13 £60,000 +20.00% 18
West Midlands -6 9 £45,000 -14.29% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.66%) IIS
2 4 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (0.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.28%) Kentico
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 227 (62.71%) Azure
2 91 (25.14%) AWS
3 58 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (11.88%) Serverless
5 30 (8.29%) GitHub
6 25 (6.91%) SaaS
7 21 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (4.70%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.42%) Azure Functions
10 14 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.87%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (3.87%) Azure AKS
11 13 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.59%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (3.31%) Azure App Service
13 11 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (37.02%) SQL Server
2 44 (12.15%) MongoDB
3 41 (11.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (9.12%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.14%) MySQL
8 13 (3.59%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.31%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.76%) Power BI
11 5 (1.38%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (1.38%) Redis
12 3 (0.83%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (14.64%) Git
2 13 (3.59%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.76%) JIRA
4 7 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.83%) GitLab
5 3 (0.83%) MSTest
5 3 (0.83%) NUnit
5 3 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.55%) JMeter
6 2 (0.55%) Postman
6 2 (0.55%) Selenium
6 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.28%) Vite
7 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 42 (11.60%) Finance
2 41 (11.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.42%) Law
4 11 (3.04%) Games
4 11 (3.04%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.21%) Legal
7 7 (1.93%) Front Office
7 7 (1.93%) Retail
8 6 (1.66%) Banking
9 5 (1.38%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Back Office
10 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.83%) Marketing
10 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.55%) Local Government
11 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (71.55%) Developer
2 132 (36.46%) .NET Developer
3 91 (25.14%) Senior
4 83 (22.93%) Software Developer
5 64 (17.68%) C# Developer
6 57 (15.75%) Senior Developer
7 47 (12.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (12.15%) Software Engineer
9 42 (11.60%) Lead
10 32 (8.84%) C# .NET Developer
11 24 (6.63%) Lead Developer
12 23 (6.35%) .NET Software Engineer
13 22 (6.08%) Senior .NET Developer
13 22 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (5.80%) Azure Developer
14 21 (5.80%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 21 (5.80%) React Developer
15 20 (5.52%) Senior C# Developer
15 20 (5.52%) Senior Software Developer
16 19 (5.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 362 (100.00%) .NET
2 137 (37.85%) ASP.NET
3 108 (29.83%) React
4 87 (24.03%) .NET Framework
5 74 (20.44%) AngularJS
6 62 (17.13%) RESTful
7 57 (15.75%) HTML
8 55 (15.19%) Entity Framework
9 51 (14.09%) ASP.NET MVC
9 51 (14.09%) CSS
10 49 (13.54%) Blazor
11 43 (11.88%) ASP.NET Web API
12 38 (10.50%) ASP.NET Core
13 36 (9.94%) Vue
14 33 (9.12%) Node.js
15 27 (7.46%) REST
16 26 (7.18%) HTML5
17 16 (4.42%) CSS3
18 13 (3.59%) AWS CDK
18 13 (3.59%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.31%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 8 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.66%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.66%) Digital TV
7 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.38%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.38%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.38%) Sports Betting
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) Windows
2 3 (0.83%) Linux
2 3 (0.83%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Android
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (40.06%) Agile
2 138 (38.12%) Full-Stack Development
3 110 (30.39%) CI/CD
4 106 (29.28%) Microservices
5 97 (26.80%) Software Engineering
6 86 (23.76%) DevOps
7 73 (20.17%) MVC
8 55 (15.19%) Containerisation
9 49 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (12.43%) Clean Code
10 45 (12.43%) SDLC
11 41 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (10.22%) Scrum
13 34 (9.39%) TDD
14 31 (8.56%) Mentoring
15 30 (8.29%) AI
15 30 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (8.01%) OO
17 28 (7.73%) Collaborative Culture
18 21 (5.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (85.91%) C#
2 155 (42.82%) SQL
3 126 (34.81%) JavaScript
4 57 (15.75%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.63%) Python
6 10 (2.76%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.76%) Rust
6 10 (2.76%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.38%) Bicep
8 4 (1.10%) Bash
9 3 (0.83%) Erlang
9 3 (0.83%) Java
9 3 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.83%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.55%) XAML
11 1 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (8.56%) Degree
2 11 (3.04%) AWS Certification
2 11 (3.04%) AWS Certified Developer
2 11 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (3.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.38%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.70%) QA
2 8 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.66%) WCAG
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.28%) ITGC
4 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (21.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.94%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 106 (29.28%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.38%) Facebook
2 5 (1.38%) YouTube
3 4 (1.10%) Google
4 3 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (0.83%) Databricks
4 3 (0.83%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.55%) Foundry
5 2 (0.55%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle
6 1 (0.28%) IBM
6 1 (0.28%) IONA
6 1 (0.28%) Okta
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow